Abstract

MONTEIRO, Ilda. BODY ART: Performance and the symbology of the body as a form of artistic expression. Revista Convergências [online]. 2022, vol.15, n.29, pp.141-154.  Epub May 31, 2022. ISSN 2184-0180.  https://doi.org/10.53681/c1514225187514391s.29.79.

This research work refers to a literature review study, considering the Body art in Performance described as a symbology of the body, where the artist is the artistic expression, and at the same time the object of the work he represents. The emerging phenomenon of performance, as an artistic expression, emerged from a set of individual and collective actions, in which the symbology and expressiveness of the body are embodied in an art form, through which they occupy a symbolic structure and a function at the service of the artistic power. The body is considered a symbolic interlocutor of relevance and prominence in cultural and artistic representations, whose protagonism focuses on various artistic expressivities at a contemporary level, since the beginnings of the most ancestral ritual. Performance asserts itself as an artistic practice in confrontation with the performing arts, the plastic arts in general, whose experimental impetus is accentuated from modernism and historical avant-gardes. Notably, when we talk about performance art, happening or live art, we relate the ritual to these artistic procedures, because, as we have seen, they are “aesthetic rituals”, being aware that, evidently, we are not talking about a ritual properly speaking. various personal experiences, but of an artistic value.

Keywords : Body art; performance; anthropology; Imaginary.

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